Honeymoon Brainstorm

When Bird and I started talking about honeymoons there were not many stipulations.

Bird really wanted to go the beach.  That was priority number one.  We figured, after wedding planning stress, going to a beach and just relaxing….that’s the way to go.  So that ruled out all places without beaches.

I had always wanted to go to Hawaii for my honeymoon.  I just always thought I would.  But Bird’s brother is dating a Hawaiian girl and more than likely we will be attending a wedding in Hawaii in the next few years…so we decided that we would take Hawaii off the honeymoon list.

After deciding that…we were pretty certain we would be going to Mexico.  Our friends had honeymooned at a particular all-inclusive and couldn’t say enough good things about it.  They loved it so much that the bride’s two sisters both honeymooned at the same resort.  So for the first few months of our engagement, we were just planning on that.  As time went by, I started to research some reviews on TripAdvisor and things didn’t seem as great as my friends made it sound.  That was the first strike against Mexico.  The second strike was that it will be hurricane season in September and my cousin had his Cancun honeymoon ruined by a hurricane a few years ago.  Third strike was swine flu.  (Just kidding, I’m not skerd)

After more and more discussion, Bird and I decided that Mexico is a very doable vacation at any other point in our lives.  It’s relatively close, it’s relatively inexpensive.  We know people that vacation there every year.  We started talking about how we might want our honeymoon to be a “once in a lifetime” trip.

Bird was telling me how she really wanted to go for two weeks.  She thinks a honeymoon is a perfect excuse to take two weeks off of work.  I told her if I had to lay on a beach for two weeks, I’d go crazy.  So we started talking about mixing it up.  Finding a place where we could do both the beach and the touristy sightseeing kind of stuff.

So we started thinking bigger and more exotic.  Fiji, Thailand, Costa Rica, Seychelles, Maldives, Bali, Greece, New Zealand, Belize….all of these were considered or on a list at one point or another.

The honeymoon is sort of an ongoing topic of discussion.  We’ve been researching a lot of options.  We’ve been looking at the money situation.  We’ve been searching for deals.  We’ve been talking to a lot of friends about their honeymoons.

It’s a pretty fun part of wedding planning.

PS.  I’ve created a honeymoon fund goal on the sidebar.